V. I. Lenin

Addendum to the Draft Decree onThe Institution of an All-Russia Inter-Departmental Extraordinary Commission for Guarding the Railways{1}

Written:January 30 (February 12), 1918Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVIII.

      Printed from the manuscript.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      2nd English Edition,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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Aspecial duty of the guard is ruthlessly to combat
profiteering and the illicit transportation of food.

{1}This addendum was written by Lenin during the discussion at the meeting
of the C.P.C. on January 30 (February 12), 1918, of the draft decree
concerning the setting up of an inter-departmen-tal extraordinary
commission for guarding the railways-.”in order to ensure a regular supply
of food and articles of prime necessity to the population”. Lenin’s
addendum was incorporated in the adopted decree as § 5 (seeDecrees of
the Soviet Government, Vol. I, Moscow, 1957, pp. 453-54).

Onthe report of the above commission the C.P.C. also
passed a decision based on Lenin’s proposals published below (see pp. 57-58
of this volume).